Re: Fw: [PHP-DEV] Function caching... From: Jim Jagielski (jim <email protected>)
Date: 12/10/00

=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Schotte?= wrote:
>
> * Kristian Koehntopp wrote:
> > Anyway, this discussion leads nowhere. Zeev pretty much made
> > clear that Zend is not interested into enterprise solutions, but
> > into a preferably objectless web-BASIC for writing guestbooks.
> >
> > I agree with him insofar that simple things should be simple.
> > But in my opinion complex things still should be possible. They
> > should not be banned from a language or an architecture just
> > because they are nontrivial.
>
> Thanks Kristian for getting the point. Perhaps we should publish
> an overall articel on the "PHP Inside!" category that summarizes
> this discussion and gets to the point that it seems that PHP will
> ever be a language for 08/15 guestbook applications no one wants.
> Sometimes the truth is hard to accept.
>

I think that there is a *world* of difference in saying that "PHP
should become an application server" and "PHP should evolve and
maybe gain some changes that would make it more suitable as
an application server foundation."

After all, Java (and JSP) is not (are not) an application server. 

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